An often seen one in this country is covered with dripping blood and says
‘Washed in the Blood of the lamb’ - just the thought of this makes me wanna retch. I don’t like the sight of blood.
I’m surprised that the animal rights people aren’t concerned - and it seems a bit kinky to me too.
I grew up in a small Tennessee town that had three churches on every corner and four or five between so I grew up with the signs and never really gave them much thought until I happened to notice one on a billboard a few miles away from the last house I lived in there.
It said “Saturday is the true day of the lord; All those that worship on Sunday shall be marked with the Sign of the Beast”.
I couldn’t help but stare at it in a mixture of awe, hilarity, and revulsion every time I passed it going into town.
One time, some prankster changed the letters around on the one by my house. It had originally read, “Celebrate Thanksgiving with thanks living.” It was changed to, “Celebrate shit with vagina.”
The one near us had the variation, “Don’t burn. Use sonblock.”
That is seriously fucked up. Even here in America’s Bible belt we don’t see shit like that, although sometimes you’ll see a Christian wearing a shirt with a gory color drawing of Jesus’s hand with a nail driven through it.
I’ve seen that on billboards as far away as Montgomery, Alabama. Really bizarre and disjointed too. It’s like Dr. Bronner got all mean and rented some ad space in the Deep South.
A friend and I saw one as we were driving last week: “GOD IS CALLING YOU TO SERVE.” I turned to my friend and said, “Yeah. God wants me to bring him a beer.”
“You’re not listening,” he replied. “God said he wants you to bring ME a beer.”